Re: posting-styles and bbdb "from"

[Richard Riley]

David <de_bb@arcor.de> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>> I was wondering if anyone has a solution for setting the
>> gnus-posting-style address based on a "email-from" field or similar on a
>> contacts bbdb record?
>
> Put the following function in your .gnus:

Hi David,

I got it going. Great. I did have to define my own symbol though e.g

(setq email-type (make-symbol "email-type"))

Now, the question I have, having checked the posting styles manual, is
how best to optimise something like this?


(setq gnus-posting-styles
      `(
        (,(rx(or "DevelopmentEmail" "emacs" ))
         (name "Richard Riley")
         (address "rileyrgdev@googlemail.com")
         (from "Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>")
         )
        ((DE-bbdb-match-field-recipient 'email-type "dev")
         (name "Richard Riley")
         (address "rileyrgdev@googlemail.com")
         (from "Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>")
         )))

I understand that the first clause ",(rx.." produces a match string
(regexp) which is later evaluated against the group name. The second
searches for the email-type field and matches it is type "dev".

But how could I combine them so as not to have to repeat the other
forms?

regards

r.

        


>
> (defun DE-bbdb-match-field-recipient (field regexp)
>   "Match FIELD for recipient against REGEXP.
> FIELD must be a symbol, e.g. 'gnus-private."
>   (let (who rec)
>     (when (and
>          (gnus-buffer-live-p gnus-article-copy)
>          (setq who
>                (with-current-buffer gnus-article-copy
>                  (save-restriction
>                    (nnheader-narrow-to-headers)
>                    (or (message-fetch-field "reply-to")
>                        (message-fetch-field "from")))))
>          (setq rec
>                (bbdb-search-simple
>                 nil
>                 (cadr (gnus-extract-address-components who)))))
>       (string-match regexp (bbdb-get-field rec field)))))
>
> Then you can use this function in gnus-posting-styles as follows:
>
> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>       '(
>       ((DE-bbdb-match-field-recipient 'gnus-private "work")
>        (signature-file "~/work-sig.txt")
>        (address "address@work"))
>       ((DE-bbdb-match-field-recipient 'gnus-private "other")
>        (signature-file "~/other-sig.txt")
>        (address "address@other"))
>          ;; default rule
>       ((DE-bbdb-match-field-recipient 'gnus-private "")
>        (address "address@default"))))
>
> I use the 'gnus-private field, since I also do mail splitting via BBDB,
> but you can use any field you want, of course.
>
> -David
>
>
>

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